Logistics and Warehousing

When you are in charge of a warehouse containing millions of pounds worth of stock, a busy logistics depot or a third party storage facility you can’t afford to take chances with your fire protection. In these environments, you will often find a diverse range of risks and hazards that make this a specialist application for fire protection.  High level pallet racking creates a serious potential fire load which could swiftly spread, due to a vertical ‘chimney’ effect, whilst the very high level ceilings make detection of a fire difficult due to ‘smoke stratification‘. Smoke stratification occurs when the rising smoke reaches a different temperature in the ceiling void and just flattens out, instead of rising to reach the smoke detection system.